SERIES PREMIERE: After Cabaret on Broadway and The Good Wife on CBS, it would seem Alan Cumming could do no wrong. And tonight, he tests that theory by starring in a new, character-driven police series on CBS. For full reviews, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

2018

Mar

COUNTERPART By David Bianculli

Last week, J.K. Simmons ended that episode of Counterpart with a separated-by-glass verbal showdown between his two lookalike personae — one from each world — and showed how clearly he was capable of delineating each character. (It was the best split-screen solo acting since Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black.) There are only two episodes left this season, and the two worlds, and the characters traveling between them and killing people, have never been closer.

2018

Mar

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Once again, this series is both prolonging, and promising an end to, the long-running conflict between Rick and Negan. In tonight’s episode, Negan employs a new weapon in his escalated warfare against the Hilltop and elsewhere: using walker guts as a sort of gooey germ warfare.

2018

Mar

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode showed Carrie (Claire Danes) and her team conducting a thrown-together sting, targeting a woman ensnared in a money trail leading to the chemically induced death, by mysterious chem-warfare agent, of a general in custody for attempted treason. (Let’s set aside, for the moment, just how spookily prescient that chemical killing has proven.) What was so good about that episode was how the mission kept shifting as things kept going wrong — and how, at the end, C

2018

Mar

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Admit it. After a week like the one we’ve had — and especially some now-former members of the Trump administration — don’t we want John Oliver on that border wall, commenting on it all? Don’t we need him on that wall?

2018

Mar

THE WINS AND LOSSES IN LIFE ON 'STRIKING OUT' By David Hinckley

Striking Out, an imported Irish legal drama, focuses on the small stuff...

2018

Mar

'TRAUMA' IS A GRIPPING AND DARK DRAMA By David Hinckley

The latest TV show called Trauma feels almost like a stage play. A tense, uneasy, riveting stage play...

2018

Mar

2018 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Today’s second-round action — and there’s a lot of it — is spread over three networks, not four. CBS begins its coverage of the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament at noon, with TNT joining at 6 p.m. ET and TBS an hour later. Among the games most worth noting: East No. 1-ranked Villanova vs. No. 9 Alabama at noon ET on CBS, and Mideast No. 1-ranked Kansas vs. Seton Hall at 7 p.m. ET on TBS. Also, if you like rooting for the double-digit Cinderella teams, two

2018

Mar

THE BEGUILED By David Bianculli

In 1971, Clint Eastwood starred in an unusual period movie, directed by Don Siegel, called The Beguiled, in which he played a wounded Union soldier imprisoned behind enemy lines in a Confederate women’s boarding school. He tries to survive, and escape, by charming the women (including Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) individually and pitting them against each other — but with unexpected results. In this 2017 film, director Sofia Coppola mounted a moody and interesting remake, st

2018

Mar

TRUMBO By David Bianculli

The stellar success of Breaking Bad has allowed Bryan Cranston to pursue projects, and play parts, he would not have gotten the opportunity to attempt before, and this is one of them. In this 2015 fact-based drama, he plays Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, one of the victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist. Relish some of the great supporting roles and players, including Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and Michael Stuhlbarg, from the most recent season of FX’s Fargo, as Ed

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